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Originally Posted by typatterson67
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there were a couple of responses on publishing scientific papers.. my day job interfaces a lot with that domain.
a scientist or a researcher cannot just publish a paper - it has to go through a peer-review and approval process before being published in a journal.
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That is true, but I wonder if the peer review vetting process has much to say about the meaning of being "an author" as discussed in this thread.
In the first place, the primary concern in the peer review process of a scientific article is the quality and novelty of the research, not the writing.
Further, there can be a dozen authors listed on a scientific paper, most having had zero input on the writing of the article (authors of the research, not the article describing the research). Indeed, many times even the "lead author" hasn't written the paper but has assigned a junior member (grad student) of the research team to write up the research, and then they review and submit it -- lead author sometimes only means lead scientist (and oft times it really only means "advisor").
Lastly, as important as being published in refereed journals is in the scientific community, being an author of a refereed journal article is not really seen as making one a published author, it makes one a published scientist.